Picture perfect: this survey of Robert Adam's houses offers new insights into buildings that might have been designed for photography.(The Country Houses of Robert Adam fom the Archives of Country Life)(Book review)

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The Country Houses of Robert Adam fom the Archives of Country Life

EILEEN HARRIS

AURUM PRESS, 40 [pounds sterling]

ISBN 9781905400560

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Robert Adam is an architect who lends himself particularly well to photographic treatment as so much of his work is highly scenic, spatially exciting and flail of movement as well as colour and exquisite detail. The great Ionic portico at Osterley, the Ante-Room at Syon, the sculpture gallery at Newby or the circular staircases at Home House and Culzean Castle all seem made ...

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